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Medusa
The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201, On an Attic vase…
It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.
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📚 noun • entry_id 31362
medusa
Meanings (ES + gloss)
medusa
A jellyfish; specifically, a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles.
Typically, what we think of as the jellyfish, the medusa, reproduces sexually, spawning sperm and eggs which, once fertilised, turn into sea anemone-like polyps, which attach thems…